Not really. Is an iPhone really incapable of handling group text messages across

Jul 16, 2017
12:02:28pm

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platforms? If so that's not the user's fault. Blame Apple for failing to implement a simple feature that everyone else with a smartphone can do.

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Author

Time

Whoever came with the blue color text bubbles for iPhone users

fredetteaboutit13

7/16/17 11:21am

That's really sad

molodyets

7/16/17 11:22am

Why?

fredetteaboutit13

7/16/17 11:24am

That the color of a bubble when someone texts you is on the list of reasons

molodyets

7/16/17 11:30am

It ruins everyone's group message.

fredetteaboutit13

7/16/17 11:37am

How does it ruin everyone's group message?

El Jefe

7/16/17 11:41am

Yeah except when you're the only person in the group who didn't get an iPhone

Bgash

7/16/17 11:58am

Not really. Is an iPhone really incapable of handling group text messages across

OneUpper

7/16/17 12:02pm

Or if it bothers you that much, use GroupMe.

molodyets

7/16/17 12:04pm

No one is going to convince 9/10 iPhone users to use groupme

Bgash

7/16/17 12:58pm

Functionality decreases when one user is not an iPhone. Sure, apples "fault"

Sherlock

7/16/17 12:07pm

RE: Functionality decreases when one user is not an iPhone. Sure, apples "fault"

OneUpper

7/16/17 12:12pm

When you're in a GM with 10 iPhone users it ruins it for 9/10.

fredetteaboutit13

7/16/17 12:35pm

You still have failed to answer how it ruins it, other than not being able to see when someone's typing.

El Jefe

7/16/17 12:43pm

iMessage is quicker than MMS/SMS.

TCuz

7/16/17 12:50pm

Okay, that makes a lot more sense.

El Jefe

7/16/17 12:54pm

Sounds like an Apple problem

bushy7

7/16/17 12:56pm

Who cares? All I know is my experience is worse texting green messages.

TCuz

7/16/17 1:01pm

Apparently you care, cause you say that quite often your iPhone texting

Left Shark Coug

7/16/17 1:04pm

I do care about not texting Android users.

TCuz

7/16/17 1:08pm

Again, thanks for the heads up.

Left Shark Coug

7/16/17 1:10pm

Here is the other problem:

Bgash

7/16/17 12:55pm

That's your opinion I guess. Inconvenience may be the better word.

fredetteaboutit13

7/16/17 1:02pm

This is the only reason I switched back to iPhone.

Bgash

7/16/17 1:04pm

One other aspect is being able to access it from other apple devices. If I'm on

SpecialT

7/16/17 2:17pm

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Deleted

7/16/17 11:32am

Can someone tell me advantages of Pixel?

Bgash

7/16/17 11:25am

RE: Can someone tell me advantages of Pixel?

molodyets

7/16/17 11:33am

Haha touché

Bgash

7/16/17 11:52am

I don't want to switch because

ferris euler

7/16/17 12:02pm

I can do all that in my android phone. In fact, I send the vast majority of my

OneUpper

7/16/17 12:15pm

Honestly I wouldn't want people to know if I've read their text or not.

jensen46

7/16/17 12:37pm

You can choose who sees it. My parents and wife can see mine

ferris euler

7/16/17 12:58pm

This makes sense. I have a pixel and my wife has an iPhone. The way we handle it

Passive Sloth

7/16/17 12:45pm

On Android you can change the color of your text bubbles

bushy7

7/16/17 12:04pm

Surprise you got so much opposition on here. You're right. Brilliant move by app

2018grad

7/16/17 12:31pm

Most are acting like my OP said "here's the only reason in staying w/ apple"

fredetteaboutit13

7/16/17 12:33pm

What? Why? Why do I care what kind of phone the person I'm texting has?

jensen46

7/16/17 12:35pm

Because iPhones suck at playing well with others.

Left Shark Coug

7/16/17 1:11pm

apple thinks they're the only kid in the sandbox...

ds7

7/16/17 1:13pm

we should do a pet peeves about apple users thread

coltonbyu

7/17/17 11:13am

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